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The social worker advocating for people with learning disabilities

Community Care

When speaking to Elaine James, her passion for upholding the rights of people with learning disabilities is almost infectious. This is also evident in her accomplishments as the head of service for learning disabilities and preparation for adulthood at Bradford council. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote?

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Social workers less likely to have high morale or to recommend profession than in 2020, finds study

Community Care

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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Practice educators passionate about role, but lack of support risks pushing them out of it, finds study

Community Care

Practice educators are passionate about supporting students, but a lack of recognition and support risks pushing some out of the role, Social Work England-commissioned research has found. Four focus groups attended by 127 practice educators, and individual interviews with 28.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

The department has accepted her recommendations for the council to retain the support of a commissioner and a separate DfE-appointed improvement adviser and attempt to make progress on areas including reducing its high use of agency staff and the number of changes of social worker children face.

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Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads

Community Care

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. I think that social workers have gotten a much better understanding of their role, responsibilities and their powers.”

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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Photo: Community Care The early years Social work had always been close to Mark’s heart.